![]() Season 5 was straight garbo I didn’t even consider because I never planned on watching the anime or touching the property ever again after season 4. I honestly couldn’t believe my ears when I heard the biggest English-speaking anime content creator, when asked by another major content creator if it was worth catching up to heroaca from episode 89, straight bold-faced said fucking “no.” ![]() Anime fans are probably more forgiving than they should be when it comes to art, but it becomes quickly apparent when they stop giving a fuck about something. ![]() If the material no longer resonates with its core audience due to recurrent weak seasons, then fandom passion will rapidly dwindle. Frankly, it exposes one of the key flaws in the “seasonal” model of anime production that’s become dubiously more popular over the last half decade. After a series of middling adaptations of arcs that were controversial even during their initial publication, it’s no wonder that My Hero Academia couldn’t retain its luster forever. ![]() And it isn’t hard to tell why if you’ve had eyes on the anime fandom as a whole over the last few mha releases. Let alone before I became interested in anime which I thankfully never had to experience. However, among the anime fandom at large “acamania” has ostensibly waned substantially since I finished season 3 in the Summer of 2019. This, among anything else, speaks to mha’s continued resonance among audiences over the years. I’ve probably seen at least a dozen random civilians (mostly kids) wearing heroaca t-shirts out in the wild since the pandemic and I live in the fucking boonies. That isn’t to say My Hero Academia has lost its cultural weight entirely, as it continues to enjoy endless success in Japan with a cavalcade of spin-offs, financially successful filler movies, merchandise tie-ins, and 85 million copies sold to boot. Of course, this anime snob in my head turned out to be largely true. If you told me nearly seven years ago when My Hero Academia first aired that it would end up dropping into a secondary popularity tier among anime fans, below something like Attack on Titan or even Bleach, I would’ve told you to leave me the hell alone because I didn’t like anime and didn’t care at all about My Hero Academia.īut, if you told me the same thing four years ago when I first watched mha, I would’ve called you an overly cynical edgelord an embittered asshole desperately tearing down earnestly crafted pop media pieces as some pretentious measure to justify their supercilious ass taste. Instead I want to let anyone who reads this, MHA is back, it's back and it's finally as good as it was before. There's so much I can talk about, but I do not want to spoil the plot or any other intracies. There's actual internal conflict for Deku that results in possibly one of my favorite episodes of the season yet. But we do here, not only is both halves of the season filled with reflection and introspection from multiple characters, but there are character moments that have been building up for seasons now that finally hit their stride and it's amazing to see. While we saw flashes of that in the fourth and fifth season, I really don't think that other than Endeavor's moment in the fourth season we get that deep, even relatable introspection for a character. Whether it was All Might's final stand and realizing that he was passing on his will to his successor or Deku and Bakugo's fight embroiled in the complicated childhood trauma shared between them. What I think MHA had been missing for a while was introspection, the intricate and deeper moments that made up a lot of the earlier seasons. This is a return to the emotions, the themes, and the moments of the early MHA that I watched during This is a show that I've pretty much grown with out of high school and into college, so trust me when I say that this season is a true a return to form.Īfter two seasons of inconsistency and arcs that may have felt tedious at best we have reached a season that I think not only meets some earlier entries but can exceed them. It's no secret to my friends that I have liked this show and have been a fan for a while.
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